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Morris' new biography, written with sympathetic irony, draws on J. W. Mackail's exhaustive work of 1899 and adds psychological material once thought improper. Morris shines through the pages as a prodigious Victorian, one of a long line of self-confident zealots whose faith and energies gave them a stature that the modern mini-man can only wonder at. A dozen specialist scholars -in politics, poetry, architecture, painting, interior design, cabinetry, fabrics-would be needed to catalogue his achievements. The aim of his life was to restore craftsmanship and beauty to a deprived industrial working class...
Gleason L. Archer, Jr. '38, or Norwell and Lowell House, has been awarded the Bowdoin Prize for his translation into Latin of a selection from J. W. Mackail's edition of Virgil's "Aeneid...
...education that stresses individual creativeness and originality. To illustrate his ideas he tells the story of a student who came to his office once to enquire about some question of syntax. Instead of answering the question directly Professor Hillyer launched into a discussion of the beauties of Mackail's translations from the Greek anthology. He was rudely awakened, he says, by an efficient voice that demanded a direct answer to what seemed to the student a momentous question. "I cannot doubt." says Professor Hillyer, "that, although my information enabled him to correct the single sentence he had in mind...
...Mackail, whose last book, "The Square Circle", was a Book of the Month Club selection, has written a pleasant and amusing tale, almost too full of coincidence, but so cleverly written that no one feels any particular objection. "David's Day" is ingenious and entertaining, not good enough for a book club to select it, but good enough...
...SQUARE CIRCLE-Denis Mackail- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Charles Dickens would have liked this book. It ought to be good enough for most people. Author Mackail has made himself the chronicler of London's "Tiverton Square" -one of those quiet upper-middle-class residential oases in the roaring metropolitan desert. Like Manhattan's Gramercy Park, the Square has a sacred enclosure to which only residents have a key, and within the pale stands the statue of some respectable and forgotten person. Children play there while their nurses gossip; from most of the Square's houses sober citizens...